Re: project: Hangkerim

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Carlos Thompson wrote:
> >  * They have individual, grupal and class marking, and singular, pauc=
al and
> > plural forms.
>
> Tell me what you mean by "individual", "groupal" and "class marking".
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by those terms.  Interesting how you=
> use the paucal number.  I use that in W. for the first person, which
> distinguishes singular, dual, paucal, and plural (altho dual is usually=
> specifically inclusive, paucal and plural may be inclusive *or*
> exclusive, in most dialects).
cat-individual-singular means one cat
cat-individual-paucal means few cats
cat-individual-plural means a lot of cats.
cat-groupal-singual means a heard or any other grouping of cats.
cat-groupal-paucal means a collection of few groups of cats.
cat-groupal-plural means a big colecction of groups of cats.
cat-class means all cats or cats as generic
cat-class is not marked for number.

Paucal means an amount you can easily pick individuals appart.  Plural is=
 used
for amounts you you can't tell every individual appart.

Mass words are usually inflected by individual-singular, groupal-paucal o=
r class
number marking.

For first person:
individual-singular: only speaker.
individual-paucal: speaker plus people listening if they are not too many=
=2E
individual-plural: speaker plus many other people, present or not.
groupal-singual: speaker talking as representing a group.
groupal-paucal: speaker talking as representing a group and including oth=
er few,
represented, groups.
groupal-plural: speaker talking as representing a group and including oth=
er
groups.
class: much the same as English _one_.

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   - =BFPor qu=E9 no?
   - No tiene sentido.
   - =BFQu=E9 sentido?  El sentido no existe.
   - El sentido inverso.  O el sentido norte.  El sentido com=FAn, tal ve=
z.  O sin
sentido, como aqu=ED.
    (-- Graeville 2)